Byte.com: Double Checking Sun’s Reality Check

[ Thanks to Moshe Bar
for this link. ]

“I have been running Linux on the S/390 architecture
for two years now and I have yet to see a platform compatibility
issue with Linux S/390. In fact, according to IBM Europe, last year
— for the first time in a decade — actual mainframe
sales went up (14 percent), which is largely due to Linux. This
shows that Linux S/390 is taken seriously by the enterprise users,
and that increasingly they are buying into this platform.

Sun’s article contains so many factual errors and
misrepresentation that it makes it hard to believe its recently
renewed Linux and open-source approach is real. Sun has been
promising for years to make the source to its Solaris operating
system available, but although I have written to them and asked for
it, I have yet to receive this source of Solaris. Just try looking
for it in Sun’s web site and you will soon find yourself trapped in
a circular link charade leading nowhere.

Sun’s rebuff of IBM’s Linux efforts so far only consists of
suspicious observations and assertions. Leibniz, the German
philosopher, already proved three centuries ago that any number of
observations can be accommodated within an infinite number of
explanations. In other words, Sun’s latest action against IBM is
nothing but a FUD strategy — sowing fear, uncertainty, and
doubt.”

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